Hardcover, 702 pages
English language
Published Nov. 6, 2005 by Overlook Press.
The 13½ lives of Captain Bluebear
being the demibiography of a seagoing bear, with numerous illustrations and excerpts from the 'Encyclopedia of the marvels, life forms and other phenomena of Zamonia and the its environs,' by Professor Abdullah Nightingale
by Walter Moers
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"A bluebear has twenty-seven lives. I shall recount thirteen and a half of them in this book but keep quiet about the rest," says the narrator of Walter Moers’s epic adventure. "What about the Minipirates? What about the Hobgoblins, the Spiderwitch, the Babbling Billows, the Troglotroll, the Mountain Maggot…Mine is a tale of mortal danger and eternal love, of hair’s breadth, last-minute escapes." Welcome to the fantastic world of Zamonia, populated by all manner of extraordinary characters. It’s a land of imaginative lunacy and supreme adventure, wicked satire and epic fantasy, all mixed together, turned on its head, and lavishly illustrated by the author.
